PTI's chief demand is the release of Khan, the 72-year-old charismatic former cricket star who served as premier from 2018 to 2022 and is the lodestar of their party.
Policemen fire tear gas shells to disperse supporters of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party during a protest demanding the release of former prime minister Imran Khan, at the Red Zone area in Islamabad on November 26, 2024. - Pakistan i protesters demanding the release of ex-prime minister Imran Khan on November 26 killed four members of the nation's security forces, the government said, as the crowds defied police and closed in on the capital's centre.
Khan was barred from standing in February elections that were marred by allegations of rigging, sidelined by dozens of legal cases that he claims were confected to prevent his comeback. The government said rioters killed four members of a state paramilitary force, running them over with a vehicle on a city highway leading to the government sector."These disruptive elements do not seek revolution but bloodshed," Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said in a statement."This is not a peaceful protest, it is extremism.
The government cited"security concerns" for the mobile internet outages, while Islamabad's schools and universities were also ordered shut on Monday and Tuesday. "It speaks of a siege mentality on the part of the government and establishment -- a state in which they see themselves in constant danger and fearful all the time of being overwhelmed by opponents," read one opinion piece in the English-language Dawn newspaper published Monday.
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